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The second paragraph of this page is plagiarized from the book by Kenneth R. Bowling entitled The Creation of Washington D.C.: The Idea and Location of the American Capital. The ideas are however correct.

I will paraphrase and cite. Jailerdaemon ( talk) 03:59, 18 May 2008 (UTC) reply

The first two paragraphs are straight from http://www.gwu.edu/~ffcp/exhibit/p14/, but I do not have the time nor information of sufficiently paraphrase the content...
nd2010 ( talk) 20:39, 28 September 2008 (UTC) reply

Perhaps this article should highlight some of the viewpoints held by the organizers on this issue. I might be able to contribute to this later however I currently have done little research on the subject. Andrew.carnes ( talk) 23:59, 1 November 2010 (UTC) reply

There were no railroads in the US in 1790. The first real railroad in the US was the Baltimore and Ohio which opened in 1830. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.171.181.93 ( talk) 01:38, 22 July 2011 (UTC) reply